Transport – Mar 2
Walk, Baby, Walk
High speed, high cost, high income rail
Ignoring trains puts U.S. on the wrong track
Staff
Waste & recycling – Mar 2
Yellow is the New Green
The Economist special report: Talking rubbish
The truth about recycling
Rethinking Energy: conservation, curtailment, efficiency and appropriate technology
Energy is first and foremost a demand issue- how much do we need and for what ?- and yet the majority of public debate on the issue is to do with finding new sources of supply so as to allow industrial growth to continue.
Deep Thought – March 1
Remembering Deep Ecologist Arne Naess
Peak oil means sooner or later we’ll wake up to a new normal
What is UNsustainability?
From waste to living space – March 1
Turning Shipping Containers Into Customizable, Affordable Housing
Junked cars morph into green manufactured houses
Review: Garbage Warrior
Dealing with the Coming Plague of Empty Superstores
Apollo 13: a guilty pleasure in the age of scarcity
I was watching the movie Apollo 13 recently for what was probably the fifth time, consuming it in the manner of a guilty pleasure. I say guilty pleasure because this movie is the paradigmatic technofix movie. And, I have little faith that the mounting challenges of resource depletion and climate change can be addressed by technology alone
Biochar & biofuels – March 1
Black is the new green (Financial Times on biochar)
Australian opposition embraces biochar
Sierra Club & Worldwatch: Time to Get “Smart” on Biofuels
Review of “Fuel”
US & UK – Feb 28
Wendell Berry and Bill McKibben call for mass civil disobedience against coal
A global Green Deal
Labour – These fossil fools
Solutions & sustainability – Feb 28
How to build resilient communities in a chaotic world
Philadelphia’s new green future
For survivalists, the end is always nigh
City of Portland joins a bright neighborhood
Economics & unrest – Feb 28
Fresh evidence points to paralysis of global economy
Financial crisis sparks unrest in Europe
Economic crisis in European Union
The Boomers stop buying
Reseña del libro „The Transition Handbook“ de Rob Hopkins
(Review in Spanish of the "Transition Handbook"). Durante el último mes, hemos sido lectores atentos del libro „The Transition Handbook“, de Rob Hopkins.
Local food: success is 100% possible
Russian household plots produced about 90% of all the potatoes in Russia, 80% of all the vegetables, 50% of the meat and milk, etc.
